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UNVEILING  OF  MONUMENT 

Erected  in  Capitol  Square,  Raleigh 

TO 

CHARLES  BRANTLEY  AYCOCK 

Born  November  1,  1859 

Governor  of  North  Carolina  1901-5 

Died  April  12,  1912 


Addresses  of  Presentation  in  City  Auditorium 
Unveiling  and  Acceptance  on   Capitol   Square 

THURSDAY,  MARCH   13,   1924 


Ayeock  Memorial  Committee 

George  C.  Royall,  Chairman  B.  R.  Lacy,  Treasurer 
Nathan  O'Berry,  Chairman  Finance  Committee 

J.   Y.   Joyner,    Chairman   Unveiling  Committee 

Wm.  R.  Allen*                      R.  D.  W.  Connor  P.  M.  Pearsall* 

Albert  Anderson                   D.  Y.  Cooper*  F.  D.  Winston 

T.  AV.  Bickett*                       Joseplius  Daniels  

E.  C.  Brooks                         E.  C.  Duncan*  *  Deceased. 


Quotations  from  Aycock  Appearing  on  Monument 

I. 

//(  Semicircular  Portion  Back  of  Monument : — • 

CHARLES  BRANTLEY  AYCOCK 
1859-1912 

II. 

Ead  Inscription,  Front  of  Monument,  Under  Tablet  Represent- 
ing Education: — 

"The  equal  right  of  every  child  born  on  earth  to  have  the 
opljortunity  to  burgeon  out  all  there  is  within  him.'" 

III. 

West  Inscription,  Front  of  Monument,  Under  Tablet  Represent- 
ing North  Car'olina: — 

"I  would  have  all  our  people  believe  in  their  power  to  accom- 
plish as  much  as  can  be  done  anywhere  on  earth  by  any  people.'' 

IV. 

West  Inscription  Back  of  Monument: — 

AN  IDEAL  FOR  NORTH  CAROLINA 

"I  would  have  all  our  people  to  believe  in  the  possibilities  of 
North  Carolina  :  in  the  strength  of  her  men,  the  purity  of  her 
women,  and  their  power  to  accomplish  as  much  as  can  be  done 
anywhere  on  earth  by  any  people. 

"I  would  have  them  to  become  dissatisfied  with  small  things  : 
to  be  anxious  for  higher  and  better  things ;  to  yearn  after  real 
greatness :  to  seek  after  knowledge ;  to  do  the  right  thing  in  order 
that  they  may  be  what  they  ought. 

"I  would  have  the  strong  to  bear  the  burdens  of  the  weak  and 
to  lift  up  the  weak  and  make  them  strong,  teaching  men  every- 
where that  real  strength  consists  not  in  serving  ourselves,  but  in 
doing  for  others." 

V. 

East  Inscription  Back  of  Monument: — 

IDEALS  OF  PUBLIC  SERVICE 

"Equal !  That  is  the  word !  On  that  word  I  plant  myself  and 
my  party — the  equal  right  of  every  child  born  on  earth  to  have 
the  opportunity  to  burgeon  out  all  there  is  within  him."     .     .     . 

"No  man  is  so  high  that  the  law  shall  not  be  enforced  against 
him.  and  no  man  is  so  low  that  it  shall  not  reach  down  to  him  to 
lift  him  up  if  may  be  and  set  him  on  his  feet  again  and  bid  him 
godspeed  to  better  things." 

"There  is  but  one  way  to  serve  the  people  well,  and  that  is  to 
do  the  right  thing,  trusting  them  as  they  may  ever  be  trusted,  to 
approve  the  things  which  count  for  the  betterment  of  the  State." 


PROGRAM  OF  EXERCISES 

Dr.  Edwi^'^  a.  Alderman,  Presidixg 


12  M. — -City  Auditorium: 

Prayer — Reverend    Richard    Tilman    Vann,    D.D.,    Ra- 
leigli. 

An  Appreciation  of  Cliaries  Aycock — Dr.  Edwin  Ander- 
son Alderman. 
Historical  Address — The  Honorable  Josephus  Daniels. 


1  r.  M. — xludience  follow  State  College  Band  to  Capitol  Square, 
where  unveiling  will  occur  immediately. 


1 :10  p.  M. — Unveiling  of  Monument,  under  Direction  of  Pre- 
siding Officer,  Presenting  it  to  the  People  of  the 
State — Unveiling  by  Master  Charles  Brantley  Aycock, 
Goldsboro,  jST.  C.,  and  Master  Charles  Aycock  Poe, 
Raleigh. 


1:15  P.M. — Acceptance  of  Statue  on  Behalf  of  State— His  Ex- 
cellency, Cameron  Morrison,  Governor  of  iSTorth  Caro- 
lina. 


1  ;30  p.  M. — Benediction — Elder  Frederick  "W.  Keene,  Raleigh. 


HISTORY  OF  THE  AYCOCK  MEMORIAL 


Dr.    J.   Y.   JOYNEE 


THE  suggestion  tliat  a  suitable 
monument  should  be  erected 
to  the  memory  of  Charles  Brant- 
ley Aycock  was  made  very  soon 
after  his  sudden  death  in  Bir- 
mingham, Ala.,  April  4,  1912,  but 
the  World  War  and  its  aftermath 
jirevented  the  effective  further- 
ing of  the  idea  until  three  or  four 
years  ago. 

From  the  first,  the  Aycock 
Memorial  Committee  had  three 
ideas  in  mind. 

I.  One  was  that  the  monument 
should  be  a  free-will  offering  by 
the  people  he  loved  and  served, 
and  of  the  boys  and  girls  for 
whom  he  gave  the  gladdest  serv- 
ice of  his  heroic  life,  and  that 
no  contribution  should  be  re- 
ceived from  the  public  treasury. 
About  a  third  of  the  total  amount 
came  in  pennies  and  dimes  from 
countless  boys  and  girls  all  over 
North  Carolina  for  whom  Aycock 
had  widened  the  door  of  educa- 
tional opportunity,  while  the  re- 
mainder expresses  the  love  of 
men  and  women,  sons  and  daugh- 
ters of  North  Carolina,  who  fol- 
lowed him  in  his  great  campaigns 
and  wished  to  express  their  ap- 
preciation of  his  life  and  service. 

II.  The  second  purpose  of  the 
Committee  was  that  the  memo- 
rial should  not  be  the  mere 
statue  of  a  man,  a  mere  repre- 
sentation of  Aycoek's  form  and 
features,  but  that  in  some  beau- 
tiful and  enduring  way  it  should 


symbolize  the  ideals  and  aspira- 
tions for  which  Aycock  stood,  and 
for  which  North  Carolina  stood 
under  his  leadership ;  that 
through  this  memorial  Aycock 
should  still  live  and  speak  his 
high  message  to  all  succeeding 
generations  of  North  Carolinians. 
Through  the  genius  of  the  artist 
as  expressed  in  two  remarkable 
historical  panels,  reinforced  by 
some  of  Aycoek's  own  eloquent 
words,  this  hope  has  been  real- 
ized. 

III.  The  third  hope  of  the 
Committee  was  that  the  memo- 
rial should  be  a  genuine  and 
notable  contribution  to  the  art 
treasures  of  North  Carolina  and 
the  South.  To  this  end,  the  Com- 
mittee secured  the  services  of 
Gutzon  Borglum,  undoubtedly 
one  of  the  world's  greatest  sculp- 
tors. Already  distinguished  for 
having  wrought  out  some  of 
America's  greatest  statues,  it  is 
felt  that  his  supreme  achieve- 
ment— the  Stone  Mountain  Con- 
federate Memorial  —  will  rank 
Avith  the  Pyramids  for  majesty 
and  sublimity.  Avoiding  a  tra- 
ditional smoothness  and  over- 
emphasis of  detail,  Borglum 
works  in  the  style  of  his  great 
master,  Rodin,  achieving  effects 
by  bold,  rugged,  and  vigorous 
outlines,  giving  his  statues  an 
expression  of  life,  force,  and 
virility  rather  than  mere  passive 
elegance. 


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